Hunter Biden’s beleaguered former business partner, Devon Archer, will receive a full and unconditional pardon, President Trump revealed exclusively to the New York Post.
The president promised Archer the pardon when they met at the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia Saturday night, an encounter arranged by another former Hunter Biden associate-turned-whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski.
“He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told me Sunday. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.
“A full pardon,” Trump repeated, describing Archer as an “anti-Biden person” because of his pivotal role in exposing Biden corruption.
The presidential clemency will end a decade-long ordeal for Archer, who was facing jail time for securities fraud over a bad deal he was involved in with Hunter Biden in 2015.
‘Politically exposed’
“I want to extend my deepest thanks to President Trump,” Archer said Sunday. “I am grateful to the president for recognizing that I was the victim of a convoluted lawfare effort intended to destroy and silence me.
“Like so many people, my life was devastated by the Biden family’s selfish disregard for the truth and for the peace of mind and happiness of others. The Bidens talk about justice, but they don’t mean it,” he said. “I am grateful that the American people are now well aware of this reality.”
Hunter was the original target of the Southern District of New York investigation that ensnared Archer. As the son of Joe Biden, the vice president at the time, Hunter was deemed a “politically exposed person” in suspicious activity reports filed by a Morgan Stanley risk assessor.
Hunter was paid $200,000 as vice chairman of a financial services company involved in a $60 million tribal bonds fraud, while Archer says he lost millions when the firm collapsed. Yet, in the end, Hunter escaped unscathed, without charges or even having to testify, while Archer was convicted of fraud in 2018.
Archer has been on a legal roller coaster ever since, a victim of what he calls the “Obama-Biden legal apparatus” that protected Hunter.
District Judge Ronnie Abrams threw out Archer’s jury conviction in 2018, declaring his innocence and citing insufficient evidence that he knew about or benefited from the fraud.
But, two years later, Archer’s conviction was reinstated on appeal, and in 2022 he was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay almost $60 million in fines and restitution, only to have the sentence overturned on a technicality and a resentencing scheduled for later this year.
The legal odyssey has taken its toll on Archer, 51, his wife, Krista, and their three children.
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